BULLETIN 22Nd NOVEMBER 2016 (Nov 19, 2016)
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BULLETIN 22nd NOVEMBER 2016 (Nov 19, 2016) http://rotaryclubcentralmelbourne.org.au/bulletin/viewsent/7e6b64... 22nd NOVEMBER 2016 Meeting Responsibilities INDEX: 22nd November NEXT MEETING - GUEST SPEAKER PHF BREAKFAST ALMONER REPORT Chair MEETING REPORT 15 NOVEMBER MURPHY, Justine GALLERY Reporter THOMAS, Tony NEXT MEETING: ANNUAL PHF BREAKFAST GUEST SPEAKER TIM CARTWRIGHT Photographer THORNTON, Roger Door WALKLATE, Kevin The title of Tim Cartwright's talk is "Holding them to Account". This talk will be about Tim's journey and how he will use his Bulletin Editor expertise and experience in his new role. JONES, David Tim was appointed as the State’s Family Violence Upcoming Events Reform Implementation Garden DesignFest Euroa Monitor in Nov 19, 2016 – Nov 20, 2016 August 2016. He will report to Paul Harris Breakfast the Parliament RACV City Club annually on the Nov 22, 2016 progress 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM against the Family Violence Board Meeting Royal RACV City Club Commission’s Dec 14, 2016 227 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM Peninsula Family BBQ recommendations, and on the implementation of the state’s Jan 15, 2017 Family Violence Action Plan. 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM 1 of 9 3/01/2017 5:30 pm BULLETIN 22nd NOVEMBER 2016 (Nov 19, 2016) http://rotaryclubcentralmelbourne.org.au/bulletin/viewsent/7e6b64... Tim retired from Victoria Police on 4 July, 2015, after over 41 years service. It is pleasing to report that over 200 people will be attending the RACV Club on Tuesday. Please note that the arrival Speakers time is 7:15 for 7:30 am start and finishing at 9 am. Nov 22, 2016 Tim Cartwright ALMONER UPDATE ANNUAL ROTARY FOUNDATION PAUL HARRIS BREAKFAST Dear members, partners and friends, Nov 29, 2016 Tony Wood A brief update about our members: The urgent need for integrated energy Dick Mitchell: Dick has now been home for a couple and climate policy in Australia of days and his health is improving. The current plan in place is for him to continue rehabilitation with a Dec 13, 2016 moon boot supporting his achilles tendon. Dick is Chris Banks still taking each day as it comes and being positive. Zoos Victoria’s international His walking has improved. Trish and Dick send their conservation partnerships best wishes to all recipients of this bulletin and especially for the PHF Breakfast on 22 November. Dec 27, 2016 Dick and Trish can be contacted by telephone and CHRISTMAS BREAK welcome visitors. No regular meeting today Roy and Annie Garrett have been recouperating in Noosa after Roy's knee operation and Annie's Jan 03, 2017 chemotherapy. Both are feeling more robust now CHRISTMAS BREAK after their holiday and Annie is returning to better No regular meeting today health. Wolgang Jacobs: Wolfgang has moved into Mercy View entire list Health Care in East Melbourne receiving the best care. Best wishes to all. Contact only by text message. MEETING REPORT 15th NOVEMBER Posted by Gerard HOGAN Chair for the day: John Ilott Guests for the morning Maziar Taravat, Sue Duras Reports Kevin Love will send an email around for orders for new T-shirts for club members for the conference next year. Members who already have a T-shirt need to send their size in as well as will be issued issuing two T-shirts per person. Members are encouraged to register early at the cheap discounted rate. There are 308 registrations for the District Conference in 2017 so far. President’s announcement 2 of 9 3/01/2017 5:30 pm BULLETIN 22nd NOVEMBER 2016 (Nov 19, 2016) http://rotaryclubcentralmelbourne.org.au/bulletin/viewsent/7e6b64... President Justine thanked Marjorie and Bernie for their hard work in getting the new name badges organised. Particular thanks to Warwick, Neville and Kevin who have pulled out all stops to get information for the community market together and keep the project on track. Justine also thanked Roger for is exceptional hard work and pulling together the Garden Design Fest. International report from Rob Hines. The Fraternist Award for the most outstanding student selected by other students in International House at Melbourne University has been awarded. The award is worth $500 and will continue for the time being. Robert So has been awarded the prize. and the award has already been presented. Robert will be attending the club shortly to introduce himself. The young boy, Nonh, from Laos, that we have generously sponsored for an operation, will be heading to Phnom Penh for surgery on November 27 and he will be here for four weeks. Nonh is being accompanied by his father Bounsy and interpreter Mr On. while in Phnom Penh, they will hosted by the RC Phnom Penh. The surgery will commence immediately the day after assessment, and hopefully he will be able to recover in Phnom Penh over the 4 weeks. Our project manager in Laos has assisted greatly in organizing the travel and arranged an interpreter to assist with the conversation in the medical setting at the hospital. Cecily is offered to host a Chinese New Year celebration at her apartment in Southbank on the 28th of January 2017 Speaker The guest speaker for the morning was Peter Duras talking about some of the interesting aspects of the Olympic Games. Peter has a long career as a sports physiotherapist and has been sports physiotherapist at several Olympics. In view of the fact that this is an Olympic year at Rio and that in one week we will be celebrating exactly 60 years since the Olympic Games were held in Melbourne, Peter took us on the rocky road of some of the unknown and funny things that happen in the Olympics over the years. In 1956, the Olympic Torch commenced the journey in Brisbane on its way down to Melbourne. Peter passed around the torch and fuel canister, which are very rare objects. [See photo of Peter and Sue Duras with the Olympic Torch below] 3 of 9 3/01/2017 5:30 pm BULLETIN 22nd NOVEMBER 2016 (Nov 19, 2016) http://rotaryclubcentralmelbourne.org.au/bulletin/viewsent/7e6b64... The start of the Olympics was about 3000 years ago and were held at Olympia for about 1200 years. There were three very important elements to the ancient Olympics. Primarily they were part of a religious festival as a tribute to Zeus, they were incredibly competitive. Everything the Greeks did whether it was in the arts or war or sports, everything was a struggle towards victory. The end prize was fairly trivial, all you got was a wreath and and red bands tied around your arms and legs, but this gave you incredible prestige. This prestige was spread between yourself and the city that you came from. The PanHellenic region stretched as far as Turkey and down to Italy and across to Egypt. There were constant tribal regional wars this time. The area of Olympia was always an area of peace with weapons banned. During the Olympics for one month after and two months prior to the games there were no wars throughout the whole PanHellenic region. The 40,000 spectators, athletes and officials could travel from throughout the lands to Olympia in safety every four years. The first Olympic games recorded with 776 BC. They were local games with one event and the games lasted only one day. The event was 190-meter sprint or basically the length of the arena. There were 20 runners in a row in these races. Originally they stood on starting box but in order to make a fair race they came up with a gate system allowing runners to start at the same time. The starting official sat in a recess behind the runners and pulled a string allowing the gates to open at the same time allowing affair start start. After about 15 games they started to add more events. They made longer races in which the athletes ran up and back the arena. There was however no marathon, that was not part of the ancient Olympics. One of the events was running with amour, which consisted of a large shield a helmet and two shin guards. They also 4 of 9 3/01/2017 5:30 pm BULLETIN 22nd NOVEMBER 2016 (Nov 19, 2016) http://rotaryclubcentralmelbourne.org.au/bulletin/viewsent/7e6b64... developed a pentathlon, which had three events for speed with the long jump and the sprint. There were also two events for strength. The discus, which weighed three times the current discus(6kg) and finished the event with wrestling. In the long jump they ran with hand weights to give them additional momentum and links in their job. However it’s not certain exactly how they used the hand weights to achieve the length and momentum. The second nastiest event introduced was boxing. They started off with their hands wrapped within bands of leather but overtime size of these bands and thickness of the leather increased. Once the Romans took over the Olympics things got a little nasty and they added studs to the gloves. The nastiest event was the Pankration (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pankration) and was a free for all. It was not uncommon for people to die during this event. All the athletes had to arrive one month in advance of the event to train under the eyes of the officials. They had to learn the whole philosophy of the games and the rules. If they cheated they were then forced to pay full are fine. The fine was used to direct a statue to Zeus, which was erected at the entry to the stadium, and on the statue, was placed their name and a misdemeanor.